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They are also now illegal by executive order which is the main reason companies are getting rid of them. I agree with you they were biased but companies don't care about that


In what way are they illegal? The EOs only apply to federal agencies and their immediate subcontractors.

Wouldn’t interpreting the EO as setting limits on the private sector be government overreach?


From reading this:

https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-ag-dei-presi...

It seems like this part is the relevant part:

> [The executive order] also instructs the U.S. attorney general to create a plan that would deter the private sector from continuing DEI programs.

So while it is not technically illegal yet, seems like they are getting ahead of that issue before it may arise based on pretty strong signaling that it will


Thanks, I hadn't seen that. Would seem like a pretty open-and-shut 1A issue to me. So much government censorship these days.


Executive orders aren't laws


> illegal by executive order

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic here, but even if so: This phrasing is too close to just spreading a pro-Trump lie outright.

Better to say that companies are avoiding these policies because a wannabe dictator has thrown a hissy fit about them while CCing everyone on the email.


It's analogous to "working toward the führer" and, like most historical content about the rise of the Nazis, the parallels with today's USA are haunting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Kershaw#%22Working_Towards...




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